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ˈhandcraft Manual skill, power, or work; = handicraft 1. Hence handcraft v. trans.; handcrafted ppl. a.
a975Edgar's Canons §11 in Thorpe Laws II. 246 (Bosw.) We læraþ þæt preosta ᵹehwilc to-eacan lare leorniᵹe hand⁓cræft ᵹeorne. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 392 Mid his hand⁓cræfte he teolede his and his ᵹeferena forþ-dæda. c1100Rule St. Benedict lvii. (Durh. Chapt. MS. B. iv. 24) To be ceapienne æniᵹ þing heora handcræftes. c1205Lay. 4899 Þurh his hænde craftes [c 1275 Þorh his hendi craftes]. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 18 So þat it be don with hand craft [MS. B. hande crafte]. 1483Cath. Angl. 173/1 An Hand crafte, mechania. 1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1062/1 Menne of handcraft. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions Pref. 8 Diuers inuencions of handekraftes and sciences. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie 166 Euery broking hand-crafts artizan.
1849–53Rock Ch. of Fathers III. x. 358 Our Anglo-Saxon goldsmiths' hand-craft. 1933Catholic News (Johannesburg) Mar. 15 (Advt.), Hand-craft tailored suits. 1965Punch 3 Nov. 645/3 The stone, being hand-crafted and set, remained in place for more than a month before it was washed away in a rain⁓storm. 1967Listener 5 Jan 21/2 The bowls appear hand⁓crafted instead of factory-manufactured. 1968C. Leader Angry Darkness iv. 39 The tiny shops were filled..with old silver and hand-crafted copper and brass. 1968J. Arnold Shell Book of Country Crafts 59 Machine- and mass-production, together, have had a tremendous impact..on hand-crafts. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Oct. 4/2 All the fuel injection parts had to be handcrafted. |